[OSGeodata] FOIA and VMAP1 anyone?

[Jo Walsh]

dear Ned, 
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 02:13:41PM -0400, Ned Horning wrote:
> The approach I was shooting for, before running out of steam, was to focus
> on extracting those data with no distribution restrictions except for the
> fact that they are on CDs that have restricted data. This seems like a
> reasonable request to me. 

Nod, this makes a lot of sense. Some OSGeo members may already have
the necessary clearance and trusted status (thinking about Mark L.) 
to work with restricted data, if NGA couldn't spare the 'resource' to
do this in house but was at all sympathetic to the ideal.

> How do you suggest we continue with this? Should I post the resources I have
> to my ftp site, post it on the wiki somewhere, or forward it to an
> individual? 

I think that creating a VMap1_Sources page on the wiki would be a fine
idea, covering possible contacts and what we know of current
constraints in availability - and a VMap0_Sources one too for any 
definite word we may get from NGA about exactly what is covered by 
ESRI copyright there. 
 
> I have a few VMAP1 CDs if someone wants to play around with
> these data.

If the VMap1 CDs you have are fully public domain, this would be a
great thing to be able to host at telascience. There's no provision
there yet AFAIK for open data upload facility - I definitely need to 
do a chunk more work on metadata creation tools before we can
get into this - but if this made sense to you, we could ask nhv/John
to give you an account there. That's my 2c, anyway.

cheers,


jo